SNP MSPKenneth Gibson said: “There’s something strangely appropriate in the Tories choosing a ‘double cross’ to represent whatever it is they stand for, but I’m not sure it’s what they were aiming for.”

He said that it was understandable the Scots Tories want to distance themselves from Westminster but “a leopard can’t change its spots.”

The all-British Conservative web site still has the tree logos. It seems that the Scottish Conservatives wanted to break away very fast from the Westminster Tories’ image of broken ecological promises, and then put themselves out of the fire and into the frying pan.